The near media blackout on the Sri Lanka bombing that caused over 350 deaths and wounded at least 500, according to the latest reports, had absolutely nothing to do with racism and imperialism. This comment is nothing but a bunch of virtue signaling balderdash.

Maybe we should send some of our South Carolina lawmakers a stethoscope or invite them to take the time to listen to the sound of a human heart on any heart monitor. . . The human heartbeat is ubiquitous . . it comes at us from every corner of life pointing to both the fact and the value of human life.

Sadly, my male friends on Facebook began to share memes back and forth about a recent movie, a movie with a good story line and actually relatively clean. However, the main character, an attractive female actress, was scantily clad in much of the movie and in most of the movie promos. Even sadder, many of my dad friends on social media shared memes of this attractive, barely dressed female with many a joke about how they looked forward to taking their daughters and sons to see the movie.

Over and over again, we have sliced away at our conscience, ultimately taking the red, hot knife of vulgarity and laying it against the tender flesh of our consciences until we have nothing left but a sliver of hard, blackened meat.

These occurrences caused a tidal wave of men and women to raise their voices about gender inequality within these churches AND promoted the prevalent idea that Southern Baptist churches consist of old, misogynistic white men who cling to patriarchy.

"“The message of true conservatism and, more importantly, the message of Christianity, do not need celebrity endorsement nor amusing stunts. When we grasp desperately at even the shallowest of approvals from celebrities, we often allow the basic tenets of conservatism to be sacrificed on the altar of trendy. . .”

“Conservatives and Christians all over the United States, and even the world, are calling for the hospital to step in and save Alfie’s life. But wait, I thought conservatives didn’t believe health care was a right, but a privilege. Are conservatives being hypocritical? It sure seems so on the surface, but we have to consider two aspects of this situation.”